MissingKids.ca only buying advertisements to find missing girls, not boys.

prabeast · 2013-07-16T07:27:38+00:00

As a Canadian, this greatly concerns me! I messaged them with my professional e-mail address in reference to your statistics. I will post back here if I receive a response from them.

Thanks for your sleuth work here, I never even imagined that this was actually a real issue, and I am completely curious to know what the reason behind this is.

Edit: This group is supported by the Government of Canada, so if there is any direct reasoning for this action, it could legitimately be government discrimination.

newSuperHuman · 2013-07-16T12:43:21+00:00

I'm really beginning to think it's even worse for men and boys in Canada than it is in the US- and that's saying something.

mikesteane · 2013-07-16T12:18:01+00:00

Read Steve Moxon's "The Woman Racket" for a complete analysis of this phenomenon.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-07-16T14:10:18+00:00

That's pretty fucked up.

I guess the standard feminist response is that under the Patriarchy those boys are privileged empowered class so they don't need any help.

Eryemil · 2013-07-16T11:05:48+00:00

This is genuinely horrific.

sens1t1vethug · 2013-07-16T11:19:40+00:00

One factor could be that the public responds more sympathetically when you show them a picture of a vulnerable girl. If the ads are there to encourage people to donate, showing missing girls might result in more donations.

Obviously there's a deeper problem here, if this is true: that people care more about missing girls than boys. I'm just saying it might not be missingkids' fault but more to do with the public's bias.

jackcal · 2013-07-16T19:38:42+00:00

That is fucking bullshit. Undefendable and inexcusable.

DrDerpberg · 2013-07-16T15:01:09+00:00

Do they only advertise in Sun Media? Sun is not well-regarded by most and it might actually hurt if only Sun covers this.

trollwnb · 2013-07-16T10:21:22+00:00

Who cares about them anyway, they will grow up being wymyn abusers and rapist!

ThePigman · 2013-07-16T10:54:57+00:00

Like everything else, being missing is worse when you are female -- probably because females have such woeful senses of direction.

betaprime · 2013-07-16T09:07:51+00:00

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection was incorporated in April 1985 as Child Find Manitoba following the disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Candace Derksen. Candace’s mother, Wilma, along with a group of supporters, created the organization to provide the essential services that her family didn’t have access to throughout and following her daughter’s disappearance.

Answer: It reflects its founder's and its donors preferences.

rightsbot · 2013-07-16T05:52:17+00:00

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fia_bui · 2013-07-16T14:45:49+00:00

The only thing I can think of is that maybe there's something different on the input end with regard to the missing girls that has nothing to do with missingkids.

Maybe they get more info from the families, maybe they get more donations for missing girls than the missing boy cases, or maybe they're acting on some kind of police profiling advice that publicising missing boys is more likely to get them in trouble or something.

Klang_Klang · 2013-07-16T06:21:14+00:00

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Title	MissingKids.ca only buying advertisements to find missing girls, not boys.
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Date	July 16, 2013 5:50 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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